A friend on twitter passed on a link to an episode of G4 TV's Icons about Dungeons & Dragons that I have never seen. It's really great, so I thought I'd post it here for others who haven't seen it as well.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
What's next? Ninja-ja, Pokemon Tower Defense progress list.
Hey everybody, this is a little late coming but better late than never.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
Ninja-ja: v1.1 is now out, if you bought the game send an email to dbell1984@gmail.com to get your update, thanks!
The pokemon tower defense update is still happening, and here is what we have for you guys:
Also the last poll it seems like you guys want to keep trading, so trading will stay, in the future I might tweak things here and there but for now it stays like it is.
I also added two new tabs to the site called "Suggestions" and "Bugs" these will cover both games PTD and Ninja-ja, make sure you read them before you offer a suggestions.
The artist search is almost completed I sent emails to the top 9 applications that we received that fit into what our next game is going to be. Once they answer the emails we will pick from there. If you didn't get an email and you applied I just have to say thank you for even considering applying for the position, a lot of you had great art and we might contact you for a different game but for our next game we were looking for something very specific, some time this week I will send out a thank you letter to all who applied.
Thanks again for sticking around, the support is greatly appreciated. Let's continue on this journey! As always, let me know what you think.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
Ninja-ja: v1.1 is now out, if you bought the game send an email to dbell1984@gmail.com to get your update, thanks!
The pokemon tower defense update is still happening, and here is what we have for you guys:
- Final Touches and distribution (100%)
- Challenge Level (greatly inspired by forum member Zackirus, thanks for the great idea!) (100%)
- Level layout (100%)
- Level waves (100%)
- Level music by Hank Winer (www.soundcloud.com/hankwiner)
- Adding some TMs to the pokemart (Postponed until a later update)
- Bug fixed
- Shiny starter mystery code not working on 3rd evolution starters. (100%)
- Evolution Button: When pokemon is evolving during the level the game crashes. (100%)
- Self-Destruct bug (100%)
- Relearn only moves (ex. Thunder Fang for Arbok) (Postponed)
- Pokedex/Achievements (you decide which one on the poll above) (100%)
- Pokedex/Achievements - A pokedex will be added to the game to keep track of who you saw and who you caught, also achievements will be added into the game for finding certain pokemon and completing certain task, like beating a level without losing candy.
- Targeting System - Your towers will be able to target different units depending on what command you give your pokemon. For example, attack first, attack last, attack lowest health..etc.
- Different Pokeballs - Be able to buy different pokeballs that will let you catch pokemon at higher percentages.
- Trading Center - A place that you can search for trades being done by other players. Search by who you want in the trade or search by what you want to trade, all trades will be handled by the game so once both sides agree on the trade you will both get them immediately.
Also the last poll it seems like you guys want to keep trading, so trading will stay, in the future I might tweak things here and there but for now it stays like it is.
I also added two new tabs to the site called "Suggestions" and "Bugs" these will cover both games PTD and Ninja-ja, make sure you read them before you offer a suggestions.
The artist search is almost completed I sent emails to the top 9 applications that we received that fit into what our next game is going to be. Once they answer the emails we will pick from there. If you didn't get an email and you applied I just have to say thank you for even considering applying for the position, a lot of you had great art and we might contact you for a different game but for our next game we were looking for something very specific, some time this week I will send out a thank you letter to all who applied.
Thanks again for sticking around, the support is greatly appreciated. Let's continue on this journey! As always, let me know what you think.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Tribes of the Land: Gaspak's Clan
This entry was written by James Lawson, for the April Contest: Tribes of the Land. He can also be found on his website and twitter under @blackengorge.
Story
Gaspak's Clan
Gaspak's Clan is a small tribe of Xivorts (see MM3, p.208) that have taken refuge in the world and are waiting for the day that they become strong enough to exact their revenge on the giants and ogres that they see as their oppressors.
Distant cousins of gnomes, Xivorts have been changed and ravaged by fell magic and torture by formorians in the Shadowdark. Many xivorts are still slaves to the formorians, but a lucky few have managed to escape into the feywild or the world. However, for some this escape was at a price - bargains with cabals of hags to help them escape left them with gross exaggerations to their twisted features as they escaped through the Shadowfell. Many xivorts harbour hatred towards larger creatures, such as goliaths and half-orcs, but reserve their fiercest ire for ogres and giants.
One such xivorts that managed to flee the formarians' servitude through the Shadowfell is Gaspak, who's journey through that plane has transformed him into something stronger than normal. He saw opportunity for revenge when he was released by the hags and made further deals with them. The hags would continue to free xivorts and hold them for Gaspak in exchange for riches and treasures from the world.
Gaspak steadily built up his clan, starting with those that escaped with him, and gradually adding to his numbers with gifts and offerings to the cabal of hags that freed him.
The main tactic the clan employs is to find caves or hideouts fairly close to small villages and towns. Time is spent fortifying these places with traps and hazards, and then they begin small raids - more intent on terrifying than any real destruction. These raids are disguised as best they can as goblin or kobold raids, with the hope that the village will employ any wandering adventurers to solve the problem.
When adventurers arrive the xivorts use their traps and hazards to waylay them and then attack in swarms. The intent is to relieve the adventurers of any items they have that the hags would like. Gaspak takes his share of the items, picking and choosing those that will ultimately help him reach his goal of being powerful enough to take on giants and ogres, before meeting with the hags at pre-arranged times and places to offer them the remaining riches.
Gaspak stays in the location for as long as he deems it safe and the raiding disguise holds, or until adventurers stop coming. The clan then leave in the night to find a new base of operations.
This process has been repeated over and over again for more than three years, and their leader has gradually accumulated items that he believes will help him in his crusade. His clan now numbers over thirty, with new xivorts from the hags helping bolster his numbers, or replace those that have fallen.
Gaspak is a single-minded and determined Xivort, the thought of revenge all he truly has to rest upon after years of suffering and torture. Clever and decisive, he has thought of many of the traps that the xivorts employ - the tinkering skills of their distant cousins, the gnomes, present in his bloodline. He leads battle from the front when he has to, using the weapons and armours he has taken from past adventurers to his best advantage.
Sample Encounters:
Level 1 Encounter (550xp)
- 2 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Shadowhunter Bat (MM, p.27)
- 1 Xivort Darter (MM3, p.208)
- 1 False Floor Pit Trap (DMG, p.87)
Level 3 Encounter (750xp)
- 3 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208) mounted on...
- 3 Giant Rats (MM, p.219)
- 2 Xivort Darters (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Xivort Netcaster (MM3, p.209)
- 1 Spear Gauntlet Trap (DMG, p.87)
Level 5 Encounter (1,025xp)
- 3 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Xivort Darter
- 1 Xivort Netcaster
- 1 Xivort Shadow Caller
- Gaspak (see above) mounted on...
- 1 Dire Rat
Story
Gaspak's Clan
Gaspak's Clan is a small tribe of Xivorts (see MM3, p.208) that have taken refuge in the world and are waiting for the day that they become strong enough to exact their revenge on the giants and ogres that they see as their oppressors.
Distant cousins of gnomes, Xivorts have been changed and ravaged by fell magic and torture by formorians in the Shadowdark. Many xivorts are still slaves to the formorians, but a lucky few have managed to escape into the feywild or the world. However, for some this escape was at a price - bargains with cabals of hags to help them escape left them with gross exaggerations to their twisted features as they escaped through the Shadowfell. Many xivorts harbour hatred towards larger creatures, such as goliaths and half-orcs, but reserve their fiercest ire for ogres and giants.One such xivorts that managed to flee the formarians' servitude through the Shadowfell is Gaspak, who's journey through that plane has transformed him into something stronger than normal. He saw opportunity for revenge when he was released by the hags and made further deals with them. The hags would continue to free xivorts and hold them for Gaspak in exchange for riches and treasures from the world.
Gaspak steadily built up his clan, starting with those that escaped with him, and gradually adding to his numbers with gifts and offerings to the cabal of hags that freed him.
The main tactic the clan employs is to find caves or hideouts fairly close to small villages and towns. Time is spent fortifying these places with traps and hazards, and then they begin small raids - more intent on terrifying than any real destruction. These raids are disguised as best they can as goblin or kobold raids, with the hope that the village will employ any wandering adventurers to solve the problem.
When adventurers arrive the xivorts use their traps and hazards to waylay them and then attack in swarms. The intent is to relieve the adventurers of any items they have that the hags would like. Gaspak takes his share of the items, picking and choosing those that will ultimately help him reach his goal of being powerful enough to take on giants and ogres, before meeting with the hags at pre-arranged times and places to offer them the remaining riches.
Gaspak stays in the location for as long as he deems it safe and the raiding disguise holds, or until adventurers stop coming. The clan then leave in the night to find a new base of operations.This process has been repeated over and over again for more than three years, and their leader has gradually accumulated items that he believes will help him in his crusade. His clan now numbers over thirty, with new xivorts from the hags helping bolster his numbers, or replace those that have fallen.
Gaspak is a single-minded and determined Xivort, the thought of revenge all he truly has to rest upon after years of suffering and torture. Clever and decisive, he has thought of many of the traps that the xivorts employ - the tinkering skills of their distant cousins, the gnomes, present in his bloodline. He leads battle from the front when he has to, using the weapons and armours he has taken from past adventurers to his best advantage.
Sample Encounters:
Level 1 Encounter (550xp)
- 2 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Shadowhunter Bat (MM, p.27)
- 1 Xivort Darter (MM3, p.208)
- 1 False Floor Pit Trap (DMG, p.87)
Level 3 Encounter (750xp)
- 3 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208) mounted on...
- 3 Giant Rats (MM, p.219)
- 2 Xivort Darters (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Xivort Netcaster (MM3, p.209)
- 1 Spear Gauntlet Trap (DMG, p.87)
Level 5 Encounter (1,025xp)
- 3 Xivort Slashers (MM3, p.208)
- 1 Xivort Darter
- 1 Xivort Netcaster
- 1 Xivort Shadow Caller
- Gaspak (see above) mounted on...
- 1 Dire Rat
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Pokemon Tower Defense: v2.7 level cap to 36! Evolve your starters! New Story Mode Level!
Hey guys I'll make this quick cause I need to leave.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
New version 2.7.1 is now out! It includes:
Ninja-ja update coming early next week, new pokemon update progress list will also come next week.
As always let me know what you think below.
Have a good weekend.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
New version 2.7.1 is now out! It includes:
- New Story Mode Level
- Level cap up to 36 (you can now evolve your starters and pidgey to the max evolutions)
- Fixed the bug with Charizard
- Fixed Fury Swipes to do the intended damage.
- Play here on the blog by clicking on the "Play PTD!" tab.
- Download the EXE, SWF or APK by clicking on the "Game Downloads Link" tab.
- PlayTowerDefenseGame (Updated to 2.7.1)
- OneMoreLevel (Updated to 2.7.1)
- FreeWorldGroup (Updated to 2.7.1)
- Gamerfish (Updated to 2.7.1)
- NewGrounds (Updated to 2.7.1)
- MiniJuegos (Updated to 2.7.1)
Ninja-ja update coming early next week, new pokemon update progress list will also come next week.
As always let me know what you think below.
Have a good weekend.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
May Contest: Anachronisms
I wanted to start 2011 off with some contests and hopefully we can continue to run various contests each month here on the Wastex Games website. I now present the May Contest...
Pick a single piece of modern technology and have an adventurer find it. Assume that whatever magic brought it to the DnD world keeps it fully functional, even if it normally needs electricity, network connections, etc. Show how it could provide an advantage to your adventurer and his or her party, whether a combat advantage, or through being able to avoid conflict altogether.
There is no minimum or maximum word count required and it is open to anywhere Amazon.com will ship.
Submit your entry below and tweet the following on Twitter:
I just entered the May Contest at @WastexGames! http://bit.ly/jReaRy #dnd #rpg
If you wish to include any images, include a link to them in the form below. If you do not have a file sharing service, I highly recommend DropBox. It is free and if you use my referral link (here), both our accounts will receive an extra 250 MBs of storage.
The winner will get their choice of one of the three following items:
Lords of Madness - Miniatures 6-pc Booster Pack
OR
Deluxe Dungeon Master's Screen (4th Edition D&D)
OR
Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game: An Essential D&D Starter (4th Edition D&D)
Use the form below to submit your entry, submissions will be accepted until Tuesday, May 31st at 11:59 PM EST. If you have any questions or comments, ask away here in the comments! Good luck!
Contest is closed.
Anachronisms
Pick a single piece of modern technology and have an adventurer find it. Assume that whatever magic brought it to the DnD world keeps it fully functional, even if it normally needs electricity, network connections, etc. Show how it could provide an advantage to your adventurer and his or her party, whether a combat advantage, or through being able to avoid conflict altogether.
There is no minimum or maximum word count required and it is open to anywhere Amazon.com will ship.
Submit your entry below and tweet the following on Twitter:
I just entered the May Contest at @WastexGames! http://bit.ly/jReaRy #dnd #rpg
If you wish to include any images, include a link to them in the form below. If you do not have a file sharing service, I highly recommend DropBox. It is free and if you use my referral link (here), both our accounts will receive an extra 250 MBs of storage.
The winner will get their choice of one of the three following items:
Lords of Madness - Miniatures 6-pc Booster Pack
OR
Deluxe Dungeon Master's Screen (4th Edition D&D)
OR
Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Roleplaying Game: An Essential D&D Starter (4th Edition D&D)
Use the form below to submit your entry, submissions will be accepted until Tuesday, May 31st at 11:59 PM EST. If you have any questions or comments, ask away here in the comments! Good luck!
Contest is closed.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tribes of the Land: Contest Winner!
April's winning entry was written by Tony Mastrangeli, for the April Contest: Tribes of the Land. He can also be found on twitter under @DnDHelper.
Story
The Anher Haunt
Sevron was a necromancer of some renown in his day. Legend has it that he worked in a liar built into the Nadam mountain range, just outside the town of Anher. Sevron's goal, of course, was Lichdom. However, as powerful as he was, he wasn't able to complete the ritual properly. The result was a magical mishap the kept his brian functioning, but destroyed his body.
Trapped in his own dead body, he wait for months until a unfortunate peasant boy from the town of Anher stumbled into his mountain lair. Using his mental influence, he quickly dominated the boy and set him to do his bidding.
Once the boy had Sevron's brain safely interred into a jar, his use came to an end. Sevron had the boy kill himself and then proceeded to raise him as a ghoul.
Now with his most pressing need taken care of, Sevron began to think about the danger this nearby town might pose to him if they came looking for the boy. So he ordered his new ghoul servant to take him to the nearby graveyard for the town of Anher.
They went down into the deepest crypt and setup shop. With a massive supply of "raw materials" Sevron knew he could build his tribe up quickly. Using the first ghoul as his hands, he ordered him to start by bringing him a few corpses, to which he quickly raised in to skeletons. So over the months, Sevron managed to build up his tribe into a fierce band of undead.
He had thought about creating more ghouls, but knew they would be much harder to control then the simple-minded undead. So he deiced to work on experimenting with different types of zombies and skeletons. In addition to old corpses, anyone unfortunate enough to walk near his graveyard was quickly "recruited" into the tribe.
Thus, over the months, Sevron was able to create himself the Tribe of the Anher Haunt as he calls it. Locals know something isn't right and steer clear of the graveyard. Sevron knows it's only a matter of time before a group of adventures decides to come bother him, so he diligently is working on increasing his tribe.
This day his tribe consists of the following:
Sevron, Brain in a Jar
Level 6 Controller
Unfortunate Boy, Ghoul
Level 5 Elite Soldier
5 Skulk Zombies
Level 3 Skirmisher
4 Hulking Zombies
Level 4 Brute
10 Skeletons
Level 3 Soldier
5 Skeletal Archers
Level 3 Artillery
Story
The Anher Haunt
Sevron was a necromancer of some renown in his day. Legend has it that he worked in a liar built into the Nadam mountain range, just outside the town of Anher. Sevron's goal, of course, was Lichdom. However, as powerful as he was, he wasn't able to complete the ritual properly. The result was a magical mishap the kept his brian functioning, but destroyed his body.
Trapped in his own dead body, he wait for months until a unfortunate peasant boy from the town of Anher stumbled into his mountain lair. Using his mental influence, he quickly dominated the boy and set him to do his bidding.
Once the boy had Sevron's brain safely interred into a jar, his use came to an end. Sevron had the boy kill himself and then proceeded to raise him as a ghoul.
Now with his most pressing need taken care of, Sevron began to think about the danger this nearby town might pose to him if they came looking for the boy. So he ordered his new ghoul servant to take him to the nearby graveyard for the town of Anher.
They went down into the deepest crypt and setup shop. With a massive supply of "raw materials" Sevron knew he could build his tribe up quickly. Using the first ghoul as his hands, he ordered him to start by bringing him a few corpses, to which he quickly raised in to skeletons. So over the months, Sevron managed to build up his tribe into a fierce band of undead.
He had thought about creating more ghouls, but knew they would be much harder to control then the simple-minded undead. So he deiced to work on experimenting with different types of zombies and skeletons. In addition to old corpses, anyone unfortunate enough to walk near his graveyard was quickly "recruited" into the tribe.
Thus, over the months, Sevron was able to create himself the Tribe of the Anher Haunt as he calls it. Locals know something isn't right and steer clear of the graveyard. Sevron knows it's only a matter of time before a group of adventures decides to come bother him, so he diligently is working on increasing his tribe.
This day his tribe consists of the following:
Sevron, Brain in a Jar
Level 6 Controller
Unfortunate Boy, Ghoul
Level 5 Elite Soldier
5 Skulk Zombies
Level 3 Skirmisher
4 Hulking Zombies
Level 4 Brute
10 Skeletons
Level 3 Soldier
5 Skeletal Archers
Level 3 Artillery
Monday, May 23, 2011
PTD: v2.6.1 Trading is back! Keep your fans close and your hackers closer.
Version 2.6.1 is out! Trading is back! But first the usual announcements.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
Want to play Ninja-ja? Get a shiny pikachu, shiny mew, shiny starter or have your suggestion for a weapon design to be used on Ninja-ja? Click here for more info on how you can get those things.
Get your shiny Zubat! Click here!
What about all the people that bought Ninja-ja or that donated in the past? Is that all for nothing?
This week is Ninja-ja first update, and here is the list that Dan and I came up with:
- Android Version (0%)
- Tweaks (0%)
- Adding the Health Bar (50%)
- Graphic (100%)
- Programming (0%)
- Being able to lose (death) (50%)
- Graphic (100%)
- Programming (0%)
- Simple Point system (0%)
- Programming (0%)
- Sword mode (75%)
- Graphic (50%)
- Programming (100%)
- And a new different Bo Staff Mode (0%)
- Programming (0%)
Okay now on to v2.6.1 a couple of new things on this update:
- Trading is back again.
- Shiny rate is now 1/1000 or 0.1% (more shinies!)
- You can trade mew again.
Also I added a link to a trade chat if any of you are interested you can go to that one or use the one on the forum.
Now making a game as popular as PTD is going to get attention from a lot of people. Some of those people enjoy exploiting and hacking game. This is going to happen when the game is played offline and all the information is easy to edit. So instead of fighting them I've talked to them, and here is the resolution. If anybody wants to play the game with pokemon that are easier to catch (hit them once and they will turn red), x3 exp given per kill, x5 money given per kill they can, why not?
So here is the link to the official hacked PTD version http://www.hackedarcadegames.com/game/5714/Pokemon-Tower-Defense.html
Also if you feel like cloning your pokemon is a good way to pass the time then go ahead, no harm done.
But... what about all the legit fans, all the people that don't want all this hacking and duping and easy exp?
What about all the people that bought Ninja-ja or that donated in the past? Is that all for nothing?
Fans, I got your answer.... Multiplayer!
Multiplayer will be ran all on a server, similar to how MMOs work, so there will be no duping, no free shinies (the shiny rate will return to lower rates in multiplayer), everybody will start from scratch, and if you donated or bought Ninja-ja you will get the following benefits.
- You will get beta access to multiplayer (Play before anybody else)
- You will get your shiny codes again so that your shiny pikachu, starters, and mew will be added to your multiplayer account, and will be totally legit.
- You can think of Multiplayer almost as a sequel to PTD.
- All your single player profiles for PTD will not be deleted, ever.
- Multiplayer will be almost like a new game so it should be expected that you start over in a new game.
- You won't be able to import anything from single player to multiplayer or vice versa.
- The people who donated or bought Ninja-ja will get new codes, meaning they start over also but they might start over with a shiny starter (level 5) or a shiny pikachu (lvl 1) or shiny mew (lvl 1).
- All the levels on multiplayer will be different from single player.
- Multiplayer will have co-op and versus modes.
- There is no date on multiplayer, most of the focus right now is on single player.
PTD Weekly Update Progress: Update out now!
- Final Touches (100%)
- Double Slap will no longer slap for more than it is supposed to (100%)
- On your profile "Pokemon" should be spelled correctly (100%)
- New Story Level (100%)
- Intro (100% done)
- Waves (100% done)
- Ending (100%)
- Adding Items to PokeMart ( Postponed until next update)
- New Evolutions (4) (100%)
- Graphics (4) (100% done)
- Shiny Graphic (4) (100% done)
- Add pokemon stats to game (4) (100% done)
- New Level Cap to 36 (100% done)
- Moves for 29 (3) (100% done) Skipping Natural Gift
- Moves for 30 (4) (100% done)
- Moves for 31 (4) (100% done)
- Moves for 32 (4) (100% done)
- Moves for 33 (8) (100% done)
- Moves for 34 (6) (100% done)
- Moves for 35 (2) (100% done)
- Moves for 36 (1) (100% done)
Again your feedback is very important, I would love to hear it. Have a good night.
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